To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
15,735 books — 18,257 voters
The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana VyasaMeditations by Marcus AureliusGilgamesh by AnonymousThe Twelve Caesars by SuetoniusThe Oresteia by Aeschylus
Joseph Brodsky’s Reading List
96 books — 7 voters

The Western Canon by Harold BloomIlluminations by Walter BenjaminAspects of the Novel by E.M. ForsterPoetics by AristotleWhy Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
Works of Literary Criticism
465 books — 108 voters
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne RichThe Straight Mind by Monique WittigOut of the Class Closet by Julia PenelopeDyke Ideas by Joyce TrebilcotLesbian Ethics by Sarah Lucia Hoagland
Lesbian theory: essays
15 books — 4 voters